From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Kuan Luo <kluo@nvidia.com>, Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: sata_nv + ADMA + Samsung disk problem
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:51:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <477D9F4D.5030807@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F72FA20C31DD4F4C997B91C5B3690A09505598@hqemmail07.nvidia.com>
Allen Martin wrote:
>
>>> Dunno about the NVidia version.
>> Theirs works rather differently - the GO bit is there, but there's
>> another append register which is used to tell the controller
>> that a new
>> tag has been added to the CPB list.
>>
>> The only thing we currently use the GO bit for is to switch
>> between ADMA
>> and port register mode. Could be there's something we need to
>> do there,
>> though, who knows..
>>
>
> You shouldn't ever need to touch GO other than the ADMA / legacy mode
> switch as you say.
>
> The NVIDIA ADMA hw is not based on the Pacific Digital core.
That answers that question, I guess. Still guessing at why the
controller would get stuck in IDLE state with no interrupt raised, then..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-04 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 12:08 sata_nv + ADMA + Samsung disk problem Gabor Gombas
2007-08-14 9:30 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-14 12:02 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-08-16 16:06 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-08-16 18:45 ` Jim Paris
2008-01-01 16:44 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-01-02 3:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-02 4:03 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 4:20 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 4:25 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-02 6:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-02 6:39 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 6:55 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-03 0:27 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-02 17:23 ` Allen Martin
2008-01-02 18:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-01-02 23:23 ` Allen Martin
2008-01-03 0:21 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-03 4:14 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 4:17 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 4:54 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-03 15:44 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 15:47 ` Mark Lord
2008-01-03 21:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-04 1:43 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-04 5:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-04 0:41 ` Allen Martin
2008-01-04 2:51 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-01-08 0:10 ` Robert Hancock
2008-01-11 23:18 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-01-12 1:10 ` Robert Hancock
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